Trump Says U.S. Murder Rate at Highest Level in 45 Years. That’s Not Even Close to Being True

Andrew Harrer/CNP/AdMedia/NewscomPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed the murder rate in the United States is “the highest it’s been in, I guess, 45-47 years.”
“I’d say that in a speech and everybody was surprised because the press doesn’t like to...

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Man wounded in South LA shooting believed to be gang-related

LOS ANGELES >> A man was shot and wounded in one of his legs early Saturday in South Los Angeles.
The shooting occurred at 12:30 a.m. in the area of Avalon Boulevard and 116th Street, said a desk officer at the Los Angeles Police Department’s...

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Texas Cop Accused Of Staging His Own Death, May Be In Mexico

A Texas police officer believed to have committed suicide earlier this week is now accused of staging his death and fleeing to Mexico, authorities said in a press release.


The Austin Police Department reported late Friday that one of its own, 29-year-old Coleman Martin, faces a...

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Brickbat: What a Trip - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Dorian2013z / Dreamstime.comPolice in Pennsylvania have charged Mt. Lebanon High School teacher Christian Stein with stealing almost $5,000 from students who were planning a trip to Germany. Stein, who has been suspended from his job, said he did it because he was having financial...

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‘911 abuser’ arrested for allegedly threatening police in downtown LA

A man was arrested Thursday afternoon in downtown Los Angeles for abusing distress calls to 911 after numerous streets were closed down so L.A. police and California Highway Patrol officers could execute a search warrant.
The search warrant...

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Colorado Animal Sanctuary Euthanizes All Its Animals After It's Denied Permit To Move

A Colorado community is in shock after an animal sanctuary battling housing problems resorted to euthanizing all 11 of its exotic animals, despite the county planning commission claiming other facilities had offered to take them in.


Lion’s Gate Animal Sanctuary in Agate announced in a...

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Arizona Bill to Crack Down on Rioters Could Be Used to Shut Down Protests

Edward Smith/ZUMA Press/NewscomRioting is illegal, even in Arizona, but some Republican senators there want to make it extra super illegal. And critics fear they’re going to make it so illegal that it will result in people being charged with criminal conspiracy or racketeering (and...

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LA police seek more victims of man charged with sexually assaulting 6-year-old girl

PANORAMA CITY >> A year ago this month, a good Samaritan reported a 6-year-old girl being molested behind some metal bins at the Panorama Mall.
Now Los Angeles police are seeking the public’s help in identifying additional victims of her...

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Why This Man Was More Comfortable In Prison Than Out

Albert Bell celebrated his graduation in cap and gown last month ― but he wasn’t leaving school. He was leaving behind two decades of incarceration. 


On March 23, Bell and around 150 other men graduated from the Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able program, which provides job training to...

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The Lingering Impact of Justice Kennedy's Trumpesque Claim About Sex Offenders

C-SPANLast week Robert Montgomery, a senior deputy attorney general at the North Carolina Department of Justice, seemed to have little success convincing the Supreme Court that his state’s law banning sex offenders from social media is consistent with the First Amendment. But at least...

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The Idea of a Hate Crimes Offender Registry Is Absurd

Artur Marciniec / Dreamstime.comSomebody let California Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra (D-San Fernando Valley) know that the current criminal justice reform trend is supposed to be about helping released criminals who have served their time and done their penance re-establish stable lives in...

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Trump's Mythical Crackdown on Sex Trafficking

At Townhall.com, sex-crime victims’ advocate and author Liz Crokin accuses the mainstream media of “ignoring Trump’s sex trafficking busts.” In Crokin’s reality, “authorities have arrested an unprecedented number of sexual predators involved in child sex...

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Man injured in possible ‘suicide by cop’ attempt in North Hills

A man was in stable condition Sunday following an officer-involved shooting after he brandished what turned out to be a replica gun in North Hills the day before, Los Angeles police said.
At about 6:15 a.m. Saturday, LAPD officers from Mission...

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There’s A Jail Snitch Program In Orange County, And Here Are The Inside Memos That Detail It

LOS ANGELES ― The debate about whether the Orange County Sheriff’s Department is operating a jailhouse informant program is over.


According to Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals, it’s over. According to the 4th District Court of Appeal, which affirmed Goethals’ findings last year, it’s...

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The Unjust, Irrational, and Unconstitutional Consequences of Pedophilia Panic

“Sounds like you enjoy sex with kids,” a reader tweeted at me after seeing a blog post I wrote about former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle. It was 2015, and Fogle had just signed a plea agreement in which he admitted to looking at child pornography and having sex with two...

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Hate Crime Laws Codify Inequality

The victim of the depraved crime captured in a Facebook Live video last week, a mentally disabled 18-year-old bound and gagged by tape, seemed confused and terrified as his assailants, at least one of whom he regarded as a friend, gleefully humiliated and tortured him. They cut off part of...

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Under Georgia Bill, Minors Could Be Tried As Adults for Assaulting Cops

fourbyfourblazer / flickrLawmakers in states across the country are pushing for “Blue Lives Matter” legislation. In that spirit, Georgia could soon make it much easier for juveniles who get into altercations with police to be tried and punished as adults.
The state has recently...

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How amnesty boxes keep drugs out, people safe

At first glance, the Indio Police Department’s amnesty boxes at the entrances of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival could be mistaken for mailboxes and trash cans.
But instead of mail and trash, they’re filled with things like drugs,...

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Neil Gorsuch's First Critical Vote Allowed A Man To Be Executed

Justice Neil Gorsuch made a difference Thursday in his first 5-4 vote on the Supreme Court, siding with his fellow conservatives to deny a petition from eight Arkansas inmates who sought to stop back-to-back-to-back executions.


Gorsuch’s vote on one of several 11th-hour petitions, in...

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Brickbat: We're from the United Nations

James Steidl / Dreamstime.comAccording to an internal United Nations report, 134 UN peacekeepers from Sri Lanka sexually abused children in Haiti. While 114 of them were sent home, none served any prison time for their crimes. There have been nearly 2,200 accusations of sexual abuse against...

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Are Trump Fans a Protected Class? Maryland Cops Charge Teens Who Burned Trump Sign With a Hate Crime

Deborah Gates/Delmarva Daily TimesIn the ever-expanding category of things considered “hate crimes” we can now place political disagreement.
Last week, two young women in Maryland were arrested after allegedly setting fire to a pro-Trump sign hanging near a shopping center. The...

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Arkansas Set to Execute Eight Inmates in 10 Days

CACorrections / Wikimedia CommonsArkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced that eight death row inmates would be executed by lethal injection in a span of 10 days starting April 17, according to a report by CNN. The man are Bruce Earl Ward, Don William Davis, Ledelle Lee, Stacey Eugene Johnson,...

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Valley residents to weigh in on releasing LAPD body camera videos of police shootings

If a Los Angeles police officer shoots at someone, would you want that video released to the public?
That is the question being asked by the Los Angeles Police Commission at a community meeting in Reseda on Thursday.
The meeting will begin at...

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Mom Wants Justice For Boy Who Killed Himself After Social Media Hoax

The mother of an 11-year-old Michigan boy who killed himself after a cruel social media prank wants a 13-year-old girl to face a harsher penalty for her alleged involvement.


“I wish that there were higher charges,” Katrina Goss, of Marquette, told The Huffington Post. She said she plans...

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Appeals Court Rejects 'Shockingly High' 19-Year Sentence for Child Porn Collection

WikipediaWhen Joseph Jenkins went on vacation in May 2009, he brought his collection of child pornography with him. That decision led to a prison sentence so severe that a federal appeals court yesterday deemed it “substantively unreasonable” in a decision that shows how...

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Facebook Live Torture Suspects Shouldn't Be Charged With Hate Crime

The Chicago Facebook torturers, the four black assailants who filmed themselves abusing a white teenager with special needs, have been charged with committing a hate crime. But they shouldn’t have been. Yes, their actions were hateful, and appeared to have been motivated by anti-Trump...

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Decades of Exoneration Stats Show Blacks More Likely to Be Wrongfully Convicted

National Registry of ExonerationsAmerica saw another record year for the number of prisoners being exonerated, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, a project of University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society, University of Michigan Law School, and...

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Conviction, death sentence upheld in 2000 Van Nuys killing

LOS ANGELES — The California Supreme Court today upheld a man’s conviction and death sentence for murdering his ex-girlfriend to keep her from pursuing a rape case against him.
The state’s highest court unanimously affirmed Ruben Becerrada’s...

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Someone Sent Prominent Muslim Group A Quran Page Covered In What Looks Like Feces

Washington, D.C., police said Monday they were investigating a disturbing package sent to the office of the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties group that included a soiled page ripped from the Quran. 


The Council on American-Islamic Relations said a page from an English translation...

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Why We Still Need Statutes of Limitations for Rape

Livermore National Laboratory/ZUMA Press/NewscomImagine for a moment that, quite out of nowhere, police showed up and accused of you raping someone last Tuesday evening. They even claim to have DNA evidence of your crimes against this person, whom you’ve never met. How might you go...

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Louisiana Police Chief: Resisting Arrest is Now a Hate Crime Under State Law

A Louisiana police chief says the state’s new “blue lives matter” law, which makes it a hate crime to target a police officer, extends to simply resisting arrest.
Andrew Katz/ZUMA Press/NewscomThe law was enacted last year as part of a surge of similar legislation...

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America 'Not the World's Lawgiver,' Justice Thomas Protests in 'Dracula' Sex-Trafficking Case

Damion BastonAmerica is “not the world’s lawgiver” and can’t punish non-citizens for activity committed abroad, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas opined Monday. Thomas was the only Justice who wanted to consider an appeal from a Jamaican man convicted in U.S....

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‘We’re more than our problems’

SAN BERNARDINO >> “We’ve been here before.”
When tragedy struck at North Park Elementary School Monday, community members expressed heartbreak, fear, anger — but not shock.
Instead, they drew on their experience from Dec. 2, 2015, when...

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Rotating Restaurant Crushes Young Boy To Death

A 5-year-old boy died Friday after becoming stuck in between the wall and revolving floor of the Sun Dial, a rotating restaurant in Atlanta.


He and his family were visiting from Charlotte, North Carolina, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports. Authorities have not released their...

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Florida Man Gets Insanely Harsh 100-Year Sentence for Possessing Child Pornography

St. John’s County Sheriff’s OfficeWhile federal judges are rebellling against the harsh penalties recommended by federal sentencing guidelines for possession of child pornography, Florida judges seem to think there is no such thing as a prison term that is too long for this sort...

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Brickbat: Don't Ask Me No Questions

Police in Irvine, England, arrested Gordon Larmour after he told a young man the story of Adam and Eve. Larmour was passing out leaflets when the young man and some friends passed by. He told them God loved them. The man asked what God says about homosexuality. Larmour responded with the...

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Elected Florida Prosecutor Tries to Stop Using the Death Penalty, but Governor Won’t Have It

Joe Burbank/TNS/NewscomAramis Ayala wasn’t kidding when she ran and won a position as a prosecutor in Florida on a platform of criminal justice reform. And now she’s making national news for refusing to ask for the death penalty in the case of a man charged with murdering his...

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Somebody’s got to help assault victims. These people are doing it: Dennis McCarthy

The words are so jarring you think maybe you heard them wrong so you ask Joni Novosel to repeat them, and she does — word for pathetic word.
“The youngest assault victim we’ve seen was 27 days old,” says the director for the Center...

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Detroit Doctor Charged With Female Genital Mutilation

A Detroit doctor was charged in federal court on Wednesday with performing female genital mutilation on minor girls, in what may be the first case of its kind in the United States. 


Jumana Nagarwala, a 44-year-old emergency room physician from Northville, Michigan, was arrested Wednesday...

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Topeka Teen With Violent Pimp Faces More Than 10 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking

Terry Zeferjohn/FacebookAs a teenage runaway being threatened by a violent older pimp, Hope Zeferjohn should have been saved when Topeka police arrested the man for human trafficking. Instead, she was cast as a conspirator in his schemes and now faces more than a decade in prison.
The...

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Dylann Roof's Many Sentences Highlight U.S. Hate Crime Law's Dangerous Redundancy

FacebookThis week Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who murdered nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, two years ago, received nine life sentences under a plea agreement in state court. That penalty was in addition to the 18 death...

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First ICE Report on Police Who Won’t Detain Immigrants Shows How Small the Problem Is

Jim West/ZUMA Press/NewscomAs President Donald Trump ordered in the earliest days of his leadership, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has released its first weekly list of law enforcement agencies that refuse to cooperate with orders to detain immigrants in the United States...

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Valley’s new top cop John Sherman set to tackle rising crime

PANORAMA CITY >> The Los Angeles Police Department’s new chief in the San Fernando Valley knows he’s got his work cut out for him.
Deputy Chief John A. Sherman, commanding officer of LAPD’s Operations-Valley Bureau, took the helm last month...

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Police Officer Tackles Alleged Jaywalker And Then Starts Punching

Stunning video shows a Sacramento, California, police officer charge at and take down a black man who allegedly crossed the street the wrong way.


Sacramento Police Department officials on Tuesday leveled blame at the unidentified officer, who has been suspended with pay during an...

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Federal Judge Says Molestation Law Criminalizing Diaper Changes Violates Due Process

Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye/Photoshot/NewscomIn every state but one, sexual intent is an essential element of child molestation. Arizona is unique in criminalizing a wide range of innocent conduct that involves directly or indirectly touching children’s private parts, including...

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Brickbat: Getting Their Attention - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Petesaloutos | Dreamstime.comHeather Lindsay and Lexene Charles say the racial slur scrawled on their garage door in Stamford, Connecticut, isn’t the first time their home has been vandalized. They say police haven’t taken that vandalism seriously, so they have vowed not to...

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Is That GIF You’re About to Post on Twitter a ‘Deadly Weapon’?

‘Perfect’If a person can come to actual, physical harm by looking at a particular image, and you deliberately present such an image to that person knowing this could happen, can you be held criminally responsible?
We’re about to find out if animated images can be classified...

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The cellphone can wait – just ask this Cal Poly Pomona grad, who couldn’t

Gonzalo Aranguiz Salazar couldn’t wait. He had to pick up the cellphone that tumbled in his car. And that’s when a simple distraction turned into a nightmare.
It was Feb. 28, 2013, and Salazar was on his way from Cal Poly Pomona to...

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Hacker Blamed For Setting Off 156 Dallas Emergency Sirens

More than 150 emergency sirens blared across Dallas just before midnight on Friday in what city officials said was the work of a hacker.


The network of 156 sirens sounded at 11:42 p.m., and it was more than 90 minutes before all were shut off, said Rocky Vaz, Dallas director of emergency...

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D.C. Cop Pays 15-Year-Old for Sex, Steals the Money Back at Gunpoint Afterward

Chukwuemeka Ekwonna mugshotYet another example of how the people we trust to “save” women and girls from prostitution are often the ones they need protecting from: a District of Columbia cop has been arrested for armed robbery, assault, prostitution, and several sexual offenses...

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Is the Murder of Indian Americans by Xenophobes Getting Enough Attention?

Three Indian Americans have been killed in the US in the last few weeks sending shock waves in the Indian press that is blaming Trump’s belligerent anti-immigration rhetoric.JC Olivera via Foter Stunningly, there are even calls that the Indian government issue a travel advisory to...

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Chicago Bleeds Population for Second Year in a Row

Shinyshot / Dreamstime.comFor a second year in a row, the metropolitan Chicago area lost more residents than it gained. Not only that, the losses are increasing.
Those are the latest figures released from the U.S. Census. The greater Chicago area (not just the city, to be clear) lost 19,570...

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Man suspected of stealing mail from postal trucks, residential boxes

LOS ANGELES >> A reward of up to $10,000 was offered Friday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man suspected of stealing mail from postal trucks and residential boxes in several Southern California cities.
The...

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Woman Accused Of Choking Teen Who Blocked View Of Disney Fireworks

Walt Disney World guest Tabbatha Kaye Mature wasn’t acting in a very mature manner when she allegedly choked a teen who blocked her view of a fireworks display, according to cops in Florida.


According to an Orange County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit, Mature, 41, of New Baltimore,...

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Do Crimes Against Immigrants Deserve More Attention?

My 20-something nephew from India is thinking of canceling his planned summer trip to the U.S. because, as he explained to me, “of all the Indians getting killed in America.”alisdare1 via Foter.com / CC BY-SA




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Brickbat: Coming and Going - Hit & Run : Reason.com

On the other side, I thought taking photographs in public was legal; no expectation of privacy and all that.I really, really, liked the part about not recording the registration data. Without it, the license plate is pretty much useless, right? Anything in the bill to require actually...

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LA councilman targets ‘knock-knock’ burglars with $50,000 reward

Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander is hoping to provide extra incentive to pawnbrokers and others who may be able to help authorities bring down “knock-knock”burglary rings that target upscale homes in the San Fernando Valley and...

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30 Alarming Statistics That Show The Reality Of Sexual Violence In America

Every 98 seconds someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. That means every single day more than 570 people experience sexual violence in this country.


Sexual violence permeates our culture, from violent rape scenes on hit TV shows to sexist dress codes that reinforce rape culture; from...

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Proposed Tweak to Internet Law Could Spur Seismic Shifts in Web as We Know It

A draft bill in the House of Representatives would add sex trafficking to the list of crimes excluded from the protection of the Communication Decency Act (CDA), a Geocities-era law with an important provision on internet publishing. That provision—Section 230—would prove crucial to the...

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Do a Jewish Teenager's Bomb Threats Against Jews Count As Hate Crimes?

WESHToday Israeli police revealed the arrest of a Jewish teenager in connection with bogus bomb threats that have rattled Jewish communities across the United States in recent months. The unnamed 18-year-old, who was identified with help from the FBI, is a dual citizen of Israel and the...

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Enough Stranger Danger! Children Rarely Abducted by Those They Don't Know

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Missing and abducted children have been a big news topic lately, spurred by a host of high-profile conspiracy-theories and falsehoods that began slithering their way through social media. A casual observer could be forgiven for thinking we’re in the midst of...

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Judge rejects Roman Polanski’s bid to end sex abuse case

LOS ANGELES >> A Los Angeles judge on Monday rejected Roman Polanski’s bid to end his long-running underage sex abuse case without the fugitive director appearing in court or being sentenced to more prison time.
Superior Court Judge Scott M....

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'I Killed Him': Man Confesses He Shot Motorist Who Hit Child

A 911 call captured a man confessing he killed the driver of a car who accidentally hit a preschool child in Cincinnati.


“I took care of dude,” says the man, apparently speaking to a crying child. “I killed him. He dead. He dead. The dude that hit you by the car. He dead. I killed him....

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Baylor’s Corrupt Athletics Program Takes Center Court in Disgraced

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Senior citizen stabbed in neck in unprovoked attack at Norwalk bus stop

NORWALK >> Deputies are seeking a man who stabbed a senior citizen in an seemingly random and unprovoked attack at a Norwalk bus stop on Saturday afternoon.
The bizarre crime took place about 1:20 p.m. at a bus stop in front of a...

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Orange County Sheriff's Department Admitted To Cultivating 'Hundreds Of Jailhouse Informants,' Lawyer Says

LOS ANGELES ― A notorious jailhouse informant program in Orange County has been maintained and promoted for decades by the OC Sheriff’s Department, whose leadership and staff were committed to illegally concealing it ― those are the explosive allegations from Assistant Public Defender Scott...

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